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Originally Posted by jeztuck
This kind of research could also be beneficial to those countries like the USA where proving poker is a skill game can have some impact on their absurd situation.
Check these studies out as well (sorry about all the ones that need subscriptions)
In recent years there has been no lack of studies supporting the argument that poker is a game of skill. In 2008, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland published the results of a relatively small study in which they concluded that “
Poker is a Skill”. The following year, Citigal – a software consulting firm – analysed more than 100 million hands played on PokerStars and determined that
skill dominated luck.
Also in 2009, Ingo Fiedler and Jan-Philipp Rock from the University of Hamburg’s Institute of Law and Economics published “
Quantifying Skill in Games – Theory and Empirical Evidence for Poker” (subscription required) – a study that examined the results of more than 50,000 online players before providing strong support to the theory that poker is a game of skill.
“
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker” was published in 2011 – again demonstrating that skill was the dominant factor for profitable players and based on evidence from the previous year´s World Series of Poker. This was followed in 2012 by the most extensive study into the skill vs. luck argument – Robert Hannum´s “
Economics of Poker: The Effect of Systematic Change” (subscription required) – which concluded “Clearly the driving force behind the economic outcome of Texas Hold’em is skill rather than chance.”
Info from PokerNewsReport - "
Another Study Shows Poker to be a Game of Skill"
WRT taxing winnings in the UK, it will never happen because it is unenforceable.
WRT Judicial Review of POC Tax. My guess it that it will be referred to the EU Court of Justice and we won´t hear about it again for years!